Chelsea vs. Shakhtar Donetsk Score: Live Blog and Play-By-Play of UEFA Champions League Match

Oct 23, 2012 02:16 PM EDT

FINAL SCORE 2-1 Shakhtar leads after Oscar goal 88'

90+3 --- GAME OVER!!!

88' Oscar with a goal!! 

78' Hazard rejected!!!! Pyatov with the stop!! 

73' Chelsea wastes opportunity to score

73' CECH WITH ANOTHER SAVE!

70' Mkhitaryan with the kick! CECH WITH THE SAVE!!

69' Torres out of the match... Sturridge IN 

68' Fernandinho wide left again!!

66' Corner kick.. Mikel too high with side ways right legger

58' Fernandinho WIDE LEFT on the kick!!

57' Chelsea getting physical... missing scoring opportunities... 

56' RAMIRES WITH A BULLET!!!! Saved by Pyatov! Corner kick does nothing for Shakhtar...

55' another Chelsea corner... Shakhtar gain control

53' corner for Chelsea... Another corney... Oscar gives it to Hazard... Mata gets the ball... Shakhtar get the turnover

52' FERNANDINHO WITH THE SCORE!!

49' Hazard on the floor for Chelsea 

48' Torres gets ball, can't turn it into anything! ... Mata with the ball.. KICKS it HIGH!!

47' Ramirez with ball.. Torres can't control, Shakhtar kick ball out, Ramirez controls, turns ball over

46' Torred hits ball off own teammate, cannot complete pass, Hazard controls after midfield turnover by Shakhtar

------------------------------HALFTIME---------------------------------

45+1-- Nothing major occurs

44' corner kick, long.. Chelsea ball

43' Torres misses an easy shot over the middle!

39' CECH! CECH! CECH! Saves another goal!! 

38' Chelsea clears the danger zone after another Shakhtar threat

37' CECH WITH THE SAVE! 

10 minutes left... Chelsea has had chances to score, but they have failed badly.

26' Shakhtar on the attack! Chelsea clears! Controls the ball now... 

25' Chelsea and Shakhtar exchange scoring opportunities! Torres with lazy pass to Mata

Lampard out... Hazard in 

17' Misses wide open player on left... Will get corner kick...  SAVE BY CECH!  

15' WILLIAN TOO HIGH WITH THE KICK from Center!! 

13' Fernandinho with kick! Wide left!

11' Mikel gets ball back.. Chelsea attacks. Cole with pass over the middle. Mata now has it on the right, with the corss! Shakhtar defends beautifully!

10' Shakhtar with amazing defense! ... Attack.. Turn it over. Mata has the ball.. Torres gets pass... slips, then commits foul

9' No foul Torres open! Cannot escape one defender! Would have had 1 on 1 with goalie!!! 

8' Shakhtar controls and fans cheer. On the attack. Break it out. Kick it back to own half... Chelsea now controls

7' Oscar kicks it right to Pyatov, Shakhtar goalie--- Every time Chelsea gets touch, fans boo!

6' Teixeira foul. Free kick Chelsea, but on own side of field. Harmless foul

5' Chelsea with corner kick-- Juan Mata controls, Mikel with th eball.. Turns it over as he was looking for Mata on the right side.

Alex Teixeira received rebound of deflected ball after the inbound

2' Shakhtar atacking! GOAL!! GOAL!! GOAL!!! Shakhtar with the early goal! Teixeira with the score!

0' Chelsea gets touches on Shakhtar's side of field

WELCOME TO THE LIVE BLOG!!---------- Kick off is under way.....

Join us for our live blog of Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Chelsea as they hook up for their Matchday 3 at the UEFA Champions League. 

Here we bring you the strandings and the potential starting lineups of the game. 

The match will be taking place in Donetsk, Ukraine as Shakhtar will be the host. 

Both clubs are looking for first place position. After today, there should be a clear holder of the first place spot in teh Group E standings. Only a draw will keep both teams exactly where they stand.

Chelsea has first place and Shakhtar is right behind in second.

Here are the tentative starting lineups:

Shakhtar Donetsk: Andriy Pyatov, Darijo Srna, Chygrynskiy, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Razvan Dinca Rat, Tomas Hubschman, Fernandinho, Ilsinho, Henrik Mkhitaryan, Willian, Luiz Adriano

Chelsea: Petr Cech, Branislav Ivanovic, John Terry, David Luiz, Ashley Cole, John Mikel Obe, Frank Lampard, Eden Hazard, Oscar, Juan Mata, Fernando Torres

Our live blog will begin with the kick off which is expected to come a little after 2:45 p.m. ET/8:45 p.m. CET. 

Refresh the page and scroll to the top of the article for the lastest updates of this matchup.

Below are the standings. (Source: UEFA.com)

Group E

 

Home

Away

Total

 
 

Clubs

P

W

D

L

W

D

L

W

D

L

F

A

+/-

Pts

1

Chelsea FC

2

0

1

0

1

0

0

1

1

0

6

2

4

4

1

FC Shakhtar Donetsk

2

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

0

3

1

2

4

3

Juventus

2

0

1

0

0

1

0

0

2

0

3

3

0

2

4

FC Nordsjælland

2

0

0

1

0

0

1

0

0

2

0

6

-6

0

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